I have been overweight my entire life. I tried every diet known to man. I've always exercised pretty regularly. I'm an active person but somehow was never able to maintain a healthy weight. After years of trying everything I decided to have the sleeve. It was the best thing I've ever done! I successfully lost 105lbs. I maintain a weight loss of around 100lbs. Updated on 28 Dec 2016: I wanted to add some pictures so it was more obvious the change I went through. Hopefully they

Well I have started my journey to gastric sleeve! I had my first consultation with Dr. Balette and I am excited. The people in the office were nice and Dr. Balette was very informative. I weighed in at 250 pounds and my goal weight is 180. The added weight has caused all kinds of health issues and I have other procedures that I need done but can't until I lose weight! Now it's time for the 6 month diet and meeting with the nutritionist so my insurance will cover the procedure.Updated

My consultation with my surgeon, Dr.Balette of The Woodlands Texas, was in January 2016. I ended up needing to meet my insurance deductible before being able to start my 6 month insurance required weight loss program due to financial issues. I met my deductible and started on May 16th 2016. I am hoping to have my surgery by the end of the year. I am overly anxious about getting my surgery. If anyone has any tips or tricks to help pass the time I would greatly appreciate it!

Looking forward to losing weight. I have been over weight since the birth of my first child and have not been under 200lb since 2002. My highest weight was 238 and can't seem to lose more than 20-25lb and keep off. I have been contemplating the gastric sleeve for some time since I work in the Medical Center and have seen several of my coworkers and watched the weight fall off. I have read testimony after testimony leading up to this point and in one week from today I will be

I have fought my weight for most of my life. I joined a 12 step program for my food addictions 9 years ago and when I started working on the emotions part of my eating I lost 100 pounds. Slowly over the last 2 years I started gaining the weight again due to the medications I was on. I stopped the medications and still struggling since I had the attitude - If I was gaining weight anyway I might as well eat what I want - sugar - my drug of choice. I am tired of fighting it. The